next stop: the old tree.
everything very austrian in this picture.
it was pretty cold for skirts that short.
beauty knows no pain.
one of the nice things with a camera that knows no limits:
you start to shoot in ludicrous situations.
a dark alley. four legs coming my way. fast.
iso dialled up to 25k.
aperture f2.0.
exposure time 1/320 second.
let them walk by.
turn. syncing the steps.
three seconds later four exposures are done.
every exposure has the legs right on the ground.
at home i fed the D700 raw files to Bibble.
noise ninja did its magic. done.
unfavourable circumstances are a good training place.
posted some new pics on my portfolio homepage.
details of graz.
some well known, others more hidden.
or plain personal.
the clean look is achieved through photographic means.
for this series i keep retouching to an absolut minimum.
basically, what could easily be done in an analog darkroom.
choice of location, point of view, time of day.
thats the tools here.
in the name of friendship.
a very typical scene from a Sportfreunde Stiller concert.
this one was Hillside festival 2004.
fans with vans surfing the crowd.
for real surfboards please attend a Beatsteaks concert.
full frontal camera flash looks better on black&white images.
sometimes the only chance to get the picture at all.
stare at this for a minute.
then look at anything else.
you will see things how they really are.
found object somewhere in styria.
linkes schild: “Freitag ist Ripperltag”
rechtes schild: “Heut gibt’s Bratwurst”
heute ist nicht freitag.
leicht aus dem obigem zusammenhang gerissen
bin ich nicht besonders gluecklich, dass spiegelreflexkameras
jetzt auch einen videomodus bekommen.
bald werden kameras nirgends mehr erlaubt sein,
weil jeder sich vor veroeffentlichten videos scheut.
“nein, ihre kamera muessen sie hier lassen, keine videos erlaubt.”
generations meet.
to celebrate. the birthdays – the old and the new.
share some good time, and go to the mountains the next day.
well, what do you expect from a party where around thirty 8000m+ climbs were present?
but first, take a look at the time.
ah, its now.
perfect.
soccer.
austria vs germany.
goals scored at half time: zero.
but still half the time to wait for a wonder, which didnt happen.
or as the austrian tv-host put it in reference to a famous saying:
“a game lasts 90 minutes and in the end the germans win.”
and the sunset over the roofs of berlin was marvellous.
“real pumpkin seed oil, real guys, real grid girls, real crashes, real blood, just no real cars.” (NoSane)
that pretty much sums it up.
one of those really cool races where you want to drop your camera,
jump into some leather, put your head inside a helmet
and head down the road at 60 km per hour.
maybe next year, third time around would be a good thing.
dont miss the picture-essay that NoSane of NYX put together from my pics:
from the basketball wien 2008 tournament.
more than 5000 young participants from all over the world.
i really enjoyed the speed and enthusiasm of the boys and girls.
my setup was made to shoot on two courts in parallel.
each had two flashes mounted, radiotriggered from the camera.
that way i could easily switch the courts and only had to remember
to set the correct channel on the pocketwizard.